See inside the ridiculously complex Tesla Model S door handle

The electric door handles in the Tesla Model S manage to turn a super-simple mechanism into a super-involved electronic process you’ll need an expert to explain. Fortunately, Bozi Tatarevic is an expert, and he made the video above after acquiring a Model S door handle in a salvage yard.

Tesla, being the “different” kind of company it is, decided the cool factor was worth everything you see here. Tatarevic takes the handle apart piece by piece and shows how each part serves a purpose toward the greater goal of ... having your door handle pop out and greet you.

With complexity comes unreliability, however, and this door handle looks like it could fail in many more ways than a traditional handle could, and at $900 for a replacement unit, it’s not a problem anybody would enjoy having. Let your inner door nerd loose and check this video out. Who knows, all car door handles could be like this one day ...